Eeyup, we're bailing.

It's been an adventure already. I packed up the plushie family in plastic bags, gave them a tearful farewell, and put them on top of the closet a good 9' off the ground. (Except for my "kids" Measle, Poori, Solace, Stevie, and Zoya. who you'd better believe are coming with me.)

Then we asked around to see if any of Peg's friends are leaving. Nope, they're all battening down. Then we called the car rental places. Nothing left. Then we headed to the Amtrak station. Nothing until tomorrow, NOT EXACTLY HELPFUL.

Luckily, the Greyhound station is in the same building, and they had ONE scheduled bus that wasn't heading right into the storm path. So I guess in about five hours, we're on our way to a non-consensual vacation in Atlanta. Probably 4–5 days if all goes well...

We're going because the worst-case scenarios are REAL BAD and I don't wanna put Peg through that, not even a tiny risk. Like I said, nobody else is evacuating, and this is an overabundance of caution. And it turns out the levees are at least a little taller in our neighborhood than the Doom Prophets on Reddit were claiming.

Still. There's a non-zero chance we're gonna pretty much lose everything, if the levees fail and the city floods. I'm dealing with it better than I expected, but... yeah. It's a thing. I'll stay in touch as best I can, and I'm glad that if all goes well it looks like we won't have to be here if/when it happens.